Tagged “grave-and-sudden-provocation”

K.M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra (1961): grave and sudden provocation, and the case that ended India's jury trials

A naval officer shot his wife's lover and asked the Supreme Court to call it culpable homicide, not murder. In 1961 the Court refused — the gap between the provocation and the killing was time enough for passion to cool. A digest of the cooling-off test under Exception 1 to s.300 IPC and the trial that helped end the jury in India.